haiku-usa

A blog devoted mainly to haiku and senryu and to thoughts about, and inspired by, haiku and senryu.

Name: Bill

Location: New York, New York

A month before my 72nd birthday, I wrote my first haiku.

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

a butterfly

rises from my fingertip

soft wind

Masago said...: Perfectly delicate, or perhaps delicately perfect.; 6:35 PM
Gillena Cox said...: bee wings
over wet ixora bloom
over another; 8:49 PM
J. Andrew Lockhart said...: wonderful -- time stops; 9:18 PM
John McDonald said...: lovely couple bill
john; 12:43 AM
Bill said...: Thanks, Vaughn, gillena, andrew and John. And, Gillena, thanks for the lovely poem.; 8:45 AM
polona said...: oohhhhh... i'm with vaughn on this; 11:56 AM
Bill said...: Thank you, polona.; 5:16 PM
jem said...: Beautiful. Very gentle.; 7:06 AM
Bill said...: Thanks, jem.; 2:19 PM
magiceye said...: love this; 4:05 AM
Bill said...: Thanks for the visit and the comment, magiceye. Your "Mumbai Daily" is a handsome and interesting site.; 7:33 AM
Tikkis said...: beauty!

(and finishing that with line 3!); 11:37 AM
Bill said...: Thank you, tikkis.; 7:05 PM